Preface -- I INTRODUCTION -- Cancer screening and epidemiology -- Understanding cancer stem cells biology to get rid of tumours -- Apoptosis -- Angiogenesis -- Genetic Basis of Metastasis -- Anti-cancer drugs - discovery, development and therapy -- PART II - SOLID TUMORS LUNG AND PLEURA -- Lung cancer -- Mesothelioma -- Breast cancer -- Esophageal -- Gastric -- Colon cancer -- Rectal cancer -- Small intestine -- Hepatocarcinoma -- Pancreas -- Ovary -- Cervix -- Vagina -- Gestacional trophoblastic disease -- Prostate -- Kidney -- Urothelial Cancer -- Testis -- Head and neck -- Parotid gland carcinoma -- Melanoma -- Soft tissue sarcoma -- Bone sarcoma -- Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) -- Neuroendocrinic tumors -- III - PALLIATIVE CARE AND SUPPORTIVE CARE -- Metabolic disturbance/paraneoplasic syndromes -- Spinal medular compression -- Superior vena cava syndrome.-Febrile neutropenia -- Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting -- Asthenia -- Oncological painand clinical approaches -- Bone metastasis -- Brain metastasis -- Home palliative care in oncology -- IV - OTHER TOPICS AND COMPLEMENTS -- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia -- An overview of treatment for cervical cancer with emphasis on Immune cell-based therapies -- Treatment for patients with adenocarcinoma of uterine cervix -- Ovary cancer: surgical techniques and innovative treatments -- Metabolic disturbance/paraneoplasic syndromes -- Radiotherapy aspects of spinal cord compression treatment -- INDEX.